sparkd/nginx-staticfile repository overview

⁠Overview

A sample template for CloudFormation to deploy a simple nginx server that serves a static web page.

⁠Assumptions

• aws cli is installed⁠ and configured with your AWS account
• You have a set of ssh keys⁠ named "MyKeys"
• You have not modified the default VPC/subnets

⁠How-to deploy

Run ./deploy.sh (deploy-http|stop-http|deploy-elb|stop-elb)

• deploy-http: Will start a single EC2 http instance to serve index.html and return the DNS name of that instance
• stop-http: Deletes the stack created by the above command
• deploy-elb: Will start two EC2 http instances behind an ELB to serve index.html and return the DNS name of that load balancer
• stop-elb: Stops the stack created by the above command

⁠How to update

• Update index.html as necessary and build the image on Docker Hub (this repo is automatically built here: docker.com/r/sparkd/nginx-staticfile/)
• Redeploy the stack